OPINION: 'No-birth' goal true lifesaver

5:42 AM,
Aug. 26, 2013

An unnamed cat available for adoption at the Kenton County Animal Shelter.

Written by

Ingrid Newkirk
@IngridNewkirk

Kenton County Commissioner Kris Knochelmann may be well-intentioned in thinking that solving the county's dog and cat overpopulation crisis is as simple as refusing to euthanize animals and declaring the Kenton County Animal Shelter a "no-kill" facility.

But people engaged in real sheltering work have learned from hard experience that a "no-kill" approach creates even more problems for animals and that "no birth" is the goal we must strive to achieve.

In the U.S., 6 to 8 million animals enter shelters annually, and about half of them are euthanized because nobody wants them. ...